Word: knocking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...class member, who asked to remain anonymous, said that while most students want to knock down the grade plan, "no one would have enough energy" to implement the numbering plan again...
...found Padre Ray back in his chambers, poring over a Spanish Bible in preparation for the sermon he would give at mass the next day. After a few minutes there was a knock at the door, and a campesino walked in, hat in hand and shoulders bent over in what looked almost like a caricature of humility. "Padre, por favor, pudiera venir al cementerio, para rezar por nuestro companero?" So the priest, his face impassive, put on his black vestment, and we were off to the cemetery to say some prayers over the body of a campesino awaiting burial...
...through the ice and other such arduos labor these days is strictly for the Byrds. Gasoline-or electric-powered augers costing around $140 can drill through four feet of ice in seconds. Many fishermen keep their holes from freezing over with liberal injections of antifreeze. While most fishermen still knock together their own "bob-houses," more elegant prefabricated models can be bought for as little as $300 at sporting-goods stores, mounted on runners and towed onto the ice by snowmobile, car or truck (which can supply electricity for lights and appliances). The snowmobiles are also used for getting round...
Janwillem van de Wetering sailed for Japan by freighter in the summer of 1958. He was 27, and a misfit in the bustling Dutch society. He had read a few books on Buddhism, and, he writes, he wanted to find a door he could knock on: "a real door, made of wood, with a live man behind it who would say some thing I could hear." Japan, he knew, had living masters who would accept disciples. So did India and Ceylon, but he had heard stories of young Westerners who wandered aimlessly about in these places, eventually dying of dysentery...
...North Vietnamese offensive ever takes place, that cost will quickly multiply. The Communists demonstrated their ability to knock out South Viet Nam's reserves when sappers last month blew up the Nha Be petroleum depot near Saigon, destroying about 50% of the civilian stores. Attacks on the military's reserves of 2 million bbl. might well be part of a major Communist drive. Even if the military reserves remained intact, the drain would be great. If the war steps up again, the South Vietnamese will open the throttle, the Singapore refineries will be urged to open the taps...